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Public School Student Programs

Submitted by admin on Wed, 2014-10-08 20:52

Beginning in the 1990-91 season, we inaugurated our Student Matinee Performance Series, featuring Friday daytime performances for St. Louis school children by internationally-known players: the lute duo of Paul O'Dette and Hopkinson Smith, the Baltimore Consort, and the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. We present 4-8 of these events per season to school audiences, with the majority from St. Louis City schools. These performances are given by the same world-class performers that appear on the Great Artist Series. We feel that students deserve to hear our art form at its best, in an intimate space, and in a true concert setting. Average audience size is 350 students per concert in a 420- seat hall. This promotes a feeling of connection among the students and the performers, who often come down into the audience to answer student questions. With this series, we are addressing the needs of music educators and students in the city public schools to gain first-hand experience with these art forms. Up until 1999 we worked with the now-defunct Sharing and Pairing Division of the St. Louis City Desegregation Program, which provided busing services to our concerts. Invitations to the performances were sent in cooperation with the Division of Curriculum Services, St. Louis Public Schools. Since 2005 we have worked with Ms. Kaye Harrelson, Music Education Supervisor, St. Louis Public Schools, in similar fashion, sometimes sharing with them the costs of providing the busing. We invite all par- ticipants (both teachers and students), their families and friends to attend the subsequent evening performances of these outstanding artists.

Join Us!

From Executive Director Kevin Ginty

Join us January 27th at the Ethical Society for a virtuoso performance from Jorge Caballero at 8:00 p.m. Tickets available through the "Buy Single Tickets" link above.

Our Guitar Horizons Initiative now supports twenty schools total with a teaching artist to their classroom. These schools include 12 in the Ferguson-Florissant School District, along with others in Normandy, Jennings, and St. Louis City Public Schools.

As always, tune in to Radio Arts Foundation--St. Louis FM 107.3 or at www.rafstl.org--every Monday evening from 7:00 - 8:00 pm--and now Thursday evenings from 11:00 - midnight--to hear "Inside Classical Guitar" with host John Clayton! All past shows are archived here--just click on ICG RADIO SHOW on our menu bar.

If these programs are meaningful to you, please consider making a contribution by clicking "Donate Online" above.